Building a Ruby gem

Short presentation to show introduce the audience on how easy it is to build, ship, distribute and use Bundler and Ruby Gems.

During the presentation we built a toy Gem: https://github.com/sebasoga/palenque

Presented at: Bogotá Ruby meetup

Transcript

1. BUILDING A RUBY GEM
2. Sebastián Sogamoso
3. What is a Gem? A Gem is an archive that contains ruby code (the code you write) and a specification file called gemspec.
4. Gemspec A gem specification is a special manifest file that contains:
5. Gemspec 1. The name of the gem, the author, description, license, and links to resources, etc.
6. Gemspec 2. A list of source files 3. A list of test files 4. A list of dependencies
8. Semantic Versioning Given a version number MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH, increment the:
9. Semantic Versioning MAJOR version when you make incompatible API changes
10. Semantic Versioning MINOR version when you add functionality in a backwards-compatible manner
11. Semantic Versioning PATCH version when you make backwards- compatible bug fixes
12. RubyGems
13. Let’s build a Gem! https://github.com/sebasoga/palenque
14. Hack your own Gem! sebasoga.com sebasoga sebasoga